Laureate

Laureate

There has been a change of date for 2016-17 Penn State Laureate Rebecca Strzelec's visit to Penn State Greater Allegheny. Originally scheduled for March 14, the presentation will now take place at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4. The event is free and open to the public.

“Art + Engineering = Creative Problem-solving” will the topic when Rebecca Strzelec, professor of visual arts at Penn State Altoona and the 2016-17 Penn State Laureate, visits Penn State York on Oct. 19. Strzelec will speak at noon in the rehearsal room of the Pullo Family Performing Arts Center. The program is free and open to the public.

A call is being issued for nominations for the 2017-18 Penn State Laureate, an opportunity for a full-time faculty member who will be assigned half time to serve as the University Laureate for one academic year. The laureate can be a poet laureate, humanities laureate or fine arts laureate. The laureate appears regularly at events at University Park, the Commonwealth Campuses and throughout the state.

Carol Reardon, a military scholar and the current Penn State Laureate scholar, will deliver a lecture titled “Why Study War?” at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium at Penn State Berks.

Susan Russell, the 2014-15 Penn State laureate is touring the state to promote dignity, and Penn State York is her last stop on the campus tour on Friday, April 24. Russell will share her thoughts on human dignity at noon in the Community Room of the Joe and Rosie Ruhl Student Community Center.

Susan Russell, the 2014-15 Penn State Laureate and associate professor of theater, is taking her "Dignity Tour" to Penn State campuses, high schools and other locations across Pennsylvania, discussing "various languages of creativity, and how these languages can bridge communication gaps between diverse cultures and disciplines." Russell is reflecting on her laureate experiences through a series of essays. In this essay, her third, she looks back on the fall semester.

Penn State Laureate Susan Russell, associate professor of theater at the University Park campus, brings her "Dignity Tour" to Penn State New Kensington at noon Wednesday, Nov. 19, in the Forum Theatre. Russell’s talk, “Dignity: Changing Obstacles Into Opportunities,” will focus on who we can be in the 21st century and how we can get there together.

On Wednesday, Oct. 29, Penn State Schuylkill invites you to join Susan Russell, associate professor of theater and Penn State Laureate, for an interactive conversation titled, “Dignity: Changing Obstacles Into Opportunities.”

Susan Russell, the 2014-15 Penn State Laureate, is reflecting on the experiences through a series of essays. In this edition, she has good news and bad news: Everyone wants dignity, but everyone is having difficulty defining the word.

Penn State Lehigh Valley will welcome the University's 2014-2015 Laureate, Susan Russell, as part of her statewide Dignity Tour at 1 p.m. Oct. 22 in Room 135 at the campus in Center Valley. The event is free and open to the public.

Penn State Greater Allegheny will welcome the Penn State Laureate for 2014-15, professor Susan Russell, who will be presenting at noon Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the Ostermayer Room in the Student Community Center on campus.

Five decades ago, as the Beatles prepared to embark upon their first world tour, the unthinkable happened when Ringo Starr suddenly fell ill, thrusting one man from virtually anonymity into international stardom in the blink of an eye, according to Beatles expert Kenneth Womack.

In the wake of the Beatles’ triumphant appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on Feb. 9, 1964, the band spent the next several months consolidating their fame, breaking sales records and gearing up for their first world tour. One of the key elements in their coming global onslaught was the production of their first feature film, "A Hard Day’s Night," which completed principal photography some 50 years ago on April 24, 1964.

Kenneth Womack has earned first place honors in the contemporary fiction category from the Texas Association of Authors for his novel "Playing the Angel," which was published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press in August. Womack will receive the award in October during the Texas Book Festival.